Memories Measured in Catfish

AT A SOUTH GEORGIA FISH CAMP, SOME THINGS STAY DELICIOUSLY THE SAME

By Caroline Sanders Clements

DANGER: ALLIGATORS AND SNAKES IN AREA. STAY AWAY FROM THE WATER, read the signs tacked to the rails of the creaky wooden platform behind Ray’s Millpond restaurant. But we were a horde of children on summer vacation, and reading, for those of us who could, was the last thing on our to-do list. Hyped up on fried fish and sweet tea, my cousins and I were bound headlong for the swamp. I was normally a cautious child. But here in Ray City, in South Georgia, along the overgrown berm of a pond long abandoned by its namesake gristmill, the sunlight waning through the pines and moss-drenched cypresses only added romance to the peril. GATOR! A little voice yelled and someone pointed to a floating log. You could barely hear the…

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